Irish Examiner view: Hospital update gives little cause for optimism

The Oireachtas health committee was told that expenditure to date on the National Children's Hospital project has reached €1,130,409,151

The National Children's Hospital in Dublin is  not expected to become operational until 2024 at least.

The cost of the new National Children’s Hospital has already soared well beyond the €1bn mark, and it is nowhere near completion yet.

As reported this week by Niamh Griffin, the Oireachtas health committee was told that expenditure to date on the project — to the end of August this year — has reached €1,130,409,151, with the hospital not expected to become operational until 2024 at least.